King of The Year After That is taking a hiatus.
See ya in May!

The most luminous events in the sky are invisible to the human eye. If we could see them, we'd go blind in the gammarays: Come on, it's a singalong song! In the gammaraaayyys!

Abandon Hope!

Inching toward quantum computers: This tech seems like a quantum leap in that arena, otherwise I'd pass on it as just another "quantum computers are coming!" hype-o.
Tho I'm not going to try to explain what it is or why I think so here...

4 Year Plan: Find Another Earth. Billions of Earthlike planets likely in this galaxy.

Maybe all that stem cell research REALLY WILL cure Parkinson's....
While this breakthrough can diminish demand for "fresh" fetuses.

Popin pint-sized wheelies in your room-temperature nanocar: steering may be issue...

Not your sensei's paper cranes: Two-fisted nanorobots create DNA origami with 100% accuracy.
Creators aim at DNA computing.

Out-of-the-box "seeing machines" for the blind developed by visually impaired poet at MIT.

How high is your tolerance for your own ignorance? What if the universe is both beautiful and incomprehensible? How much are you willing to bet on your own intuition?

WHERE ARE THEY NOW, DEPT: Published one year ago, tomorrow: Genetic breakthrough supercharges immunity to flu and other viruses

The Journal Television and New Media turns 10.

Are you living in a HOLOGRAM? Graig Hogan, co-discoverer of "Dark Energy" thinks he has evidence that you are.
Possible "new era in fundamental physics."

The Experiment Must Continue! A generation after Milgram, Americans (almost) as likely to torture if someone carrying a clipboard tells 'em to.

Wear Your World: in the palm of your hand
Snap photos by framing them with your hands, dial a virtual phone, get all Minority Report on your ass.
MIT's Fluid Interface Group unveils prototype, TED lecture link to come...
photo: Erik Hersman / Flickr

Forget that jack-in-the-back-of-your-neck, future computer/brain interfaces grown from neurons.
Elisha Moses: let my neurons grow... in 2D matrices etched on glass.
so far: various logic gates, diodes oscillators...

Eat the corn you grow. Biofuels from stalks, straw, leaves...
New techniques create biogas from cellulose. Goobye food shortage?
QUOTES:

• "...30% more biogas than conventional facilities..."
• turnaround time reduced up "to 70%"
• converting to electricity via fuel cell with "overall efficiency of up to 85%"

Teach your children well.... Even those inheriting dumbness genes can overcome them, and pass on this ACQUIRED TRAIT to their offspring!
(dumbed down, here)
Epigenetics, anyone? Maybe educating children improves generations yet unborn..
Sound like an OK ROI to you?

Lesser Known Effects of Global Warming: Big Fucking Snakes.
Quote: "Scientists have long known of a rough correlation between a period or epoch's temperature and the size of its poikilotherms [cold-blooded creatures]"
this 1.25 ton monster requires an average of only 3 degrees (fahrenheit) warmer than current avg.

Where wisdom, information and communication become the common coin, what happens to the doctrine of scarcity on which our old world, now dying, was founded?